Recognition and utilization of egg maculation signals by two sympatric host species
Journal of Avian BiologyEgg color polymorphism and egg mimicry are important adaptations in the game process between hosts and brood parasites at the egg stage. The ability of hosts to recognize and reject parasitic eggs based on effective egg characteristics is a crucial ...
Guo Zhong, Longwu Wang, Wei Liang
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The antibacterial protein lysozyme identified as the termite egg recognition pheromone.
PLoS ONE, 2007 Social insects rely heavily on pheromone communication to maintain their sociality. Egg protection is one of the most fundamental social behaviours in social insects.
Kenji Matsuura +4 more
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Eco control of agro pests using imaging, modelling & natural predators [PDF]
, 2014 Caterpillars in their various forms: size, shape, and colour cause significant harm to crops and humans. This paper offers a solution for the detection and control of caterpillars through the use of a sustainable pest control system that does not require
Birch, Philip +4 more
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Killing and replacing queen-laid eggs: low cost of worker policing in the honey bee [PDF]
, 2014 Worker honeybees, Apis mellifera, police each other’s reproduction by killing worker-laid eggs. Previous experiments demonstrated that worker policing is effective, killing most (∼98%) worker-laid eggs. However, many queen-laid eggs were also killed (∼50%
Kärcher, Martin H +1 more
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An Experimental Test of Defenses Against Avian Brood Parasitism in a Recent Host
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Theoretical studies predict that hosts of avian brood parasites should evolve defenses against parasitism in a matter of decades. However, opportunities to test these predictions are limited because brood parasites rarely switch to naïve hosts.
Virginia E. Abernathy +2 more
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Comparative analysis of the immune responses induced by native versus recombinant versions of the ASP-based vaccine against the bovine intestinal parasite Cooperia oncophora [PDF]
, 2018 The protective capacities of a native double-domain activation-associated secreted protein (ndd-ASP)-based vaccine against the cattle intestinal nematode Cooperia oncophora has previously been demonstrated.
Borloo, Jimmy +6 more
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Carbohydrate specificity of sea urchin sperm bindin: a cell surface lectin mediating sperm-egg adhesion. [PDF]
, 1982 We have examined the carbohydrate specificity of bindin, a sperm protein responsible for the adhesion of sea urchin sperm to eggs, by investigating the interaction of a number of polysaccharides and glycoconjugates with isolated bindin.
Glabe, CG +3 more
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Cryptic female choice favours sperm from major histocompatibility complex-dissimilar males [PDF]
, 2013 Cryptic female choice may enable polyandrous females to avoid inbreeding or bias offspring variability at key loci after mating. However, the role of these genetic benefits in cryptic female choice remains poorly understood. Female red junglefowl, Gallus
Alcaide M +8 more
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The molecular chaperone HSPA2 plays a key role in regulating the expression of sperm surface receptors that mediate sperm-egg recognition. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 A common defect encountered in the spermatozoa of male infertility patients is an idiopathic failure of sperm-egg recognition. In order to resolve the molecular basis of this condition we have compared the proteomic profiles of spermatozoa exhibiting an ...
Kate A Redgrove +6 more
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An end-to-end convolutional selective autoencoder approach to Soybean Cyst Nematode eggs detection [PDF]
, 2016 This paper proposes a novel selective autoencoder approach within the framework of deep convolutional networks. The crux of the idea is to train a deep convolutional autoencoder to suppress undesired parts of an image frame while allowing the desired ...
Akintayo, Adedotun +12 more
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